FRIDAY, May 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Advanced liver cirrhosis can push levels of ammonia in the blood to hazardous levels, but skipping meat at mealtime can help reverse that, new research sh...
WEDNESDAY, April 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — New Jersey native Lisa Pisano was staring down the end of her days. The 54-year-old had heart failure and end-stage kidney disease, but several chro...
THURSDAY, April 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Rick Slayman, the first person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig, headed home Wednesday after faring so well that he was ...
https://thehealthcast.com/organs/first-pig-kidney-transplant-patient-discharged-from-hospital/
THURSDAY, March 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Dr. Gary Gibbon didn’t have long to live. A harsh cocktail of chemotherapy, radiation and immunotherapy for his advanced lung cancer had permanentl...
WEDNESDAY, March 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The odds in the United States that a well-functioning donor heart will go to a Black man are lower than for white transplant candidates of either ge...
THURSDAY, March 21, 2024 (HealthDay news) — For the first time ever, doctors have transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human suffering from advanced kidney failure. Such pig kidn...
FRIDAY, March 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Millions of Americans whose livers develop scar tissue due to a common disease now have the first approved drug, Rezdiffra, to treat the condition, the...
https://thehealthcast.com/organs/fda-approves-first-drug-for-common-serious-liver-disease/
THURSDAY, March 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Researchers hope findings from a new study of liver transplant patients will lead to improved interventions for those from racial and ethnic minority...
https://thehealthcast.com/alcoholism/race-ethnicity-plays-role-in-liver-transplant-survival/
WEDNESDAY, March 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Weight-loss surgery may help patients struggling with obesity and kidney failure become eligible for a lifesaving transplant, researchers report. Ob...
THURSDAY, Feb. 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new study of aging U.S. veterans finds that one in every 10 who have been diagnosed with dementia might actually have brain impairments caused by liv...